Keyhole Image

[Robby]

Hi All,
I hope your not sick of my images yet!
Here's another of the Keyhole Neb in Carina. Taken last night after canning Saturn due to poor seeing.
I wanted to have another go at the Keyhole at f/10 as before I'd done it at f/6.3 and manual guiding.
Set it up, and found after a couple I was getting tracking errors due to my guide scope being f/5. So I put a 2.5x powermate in the guidescope and got it up to f/12.5. This helped alot, but the poor seeing started coming into play. Still it was not enough to destroy the image.
See attached... .:stargaze:
Details: 10x3mins exposures @ ISO1600
C8 f/10, guiding at f/12.5 with ToUCam, Starmate, & K3CCDTools.
Stacking, curves & levels in Photoshop. Very little post image processing.

[iceman]

Just beautiful Robby, i'll never get sick of images like these!

[gbeal]

Nice one Rob,
Is it worth posting a side by side of this and the other, perhaps trimmed back in size to fit them together.
Be a good comparison.
Gary

[Robby]

Ok Gary,
You asked for it. Here is old vs. new. If you can get your eye around the colour difference, the new image is much sharper and has better detail contrast.

[gbeal]

Rob,
perfect, full credit. A much improved difference.
Good to see I/we have moderated your whacky sense of colour appreciation as well.
Get to that dark site tonight for M42. Be keen to see what happens.
Gary

[Robby]

Whacky sence of colour... Hmmmmm...
Yes I have had a tendancy towards pink at times, but that's just a hang over from the film days when everyting was red!
Looking good for tonight. Hopefully those Aussies will let us have some of their fine weather for a few days. Full Moon too. Perfect.
Full credit as always!
Cheers

[gbeal]

Always thought pink was you. What full moon, you been smoking again?

[Robby]

Opps...:doh: I guess I meant new Moon. Full Moon on Jupiter's east cape! Just not sure which one. Smokin'! Me.?. :abduct:
Might get lucky tonight, but then again, the westerly has picked up which usually means clouds after dark.

[[1ponders]]

Outta sight Robby. Number 2 definately does it for me. Who needs a smoke when you can do images like these :P

[rumples riot]

Best image of that I have seen for a long time. Really like you sense of colour and processing is lovely. Something to aspire to.

Keep em coming.

[wavelandscott]

Well done on the newest one!!!

A pleasure to look at